PMI

February Manufacturing Report. The Institute for Supply Management said its survey of top manufacturing executives fell to 54.2% last month from 56.6% in January. Timothy Fiore, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee joins us with analysis of the report.

http://media.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/p/content.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/TIM_FIORE-03-01-2018.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:27 — 5.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSSinclair Noe talks with Timothy Fiore, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. The February PMI hits a 14 year high of 60.8%.

http://media.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/p/content.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/BRADLEY_HOLCOMBE-SEG_2-02-01-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:10 — 3.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSBradley Holcombe, chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. The January PMI came in at 48.2%, up from 48% in December.

http://media.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/p/content.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/SINCLAIR_NOE-SEG_1-09-23-2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSFinancial Review by Sinclair Noe for 09-23-2015 DOW – 50 = 16,279 SPX – 3 = 1938 NAS – 3 = 4752 10 YR YLD + .02 = 2.14% OIL – 1.67 = 44.69 GOLD + 5.70 = 1131.40 SILV + .03 = 14.89 Pope Francis visited the White House this morning. Speaking from the South Lawn before a crowd of about 15,000, the Pope said “climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation. When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history”; this was also a reference to his encyclical published in May, “Laudato Si – On Care for Our Common Home”, which addressed climate change. Francis has been a frequent critic of the damage caused to the world’s poor and the environment by capitalism’s excesses. He also urged more attention be paid to the millions in poverty now overlooked by society, quoting Martin Luther King that “we have defaulted on a promissory note and now it is time to honor it.” Pope Francis said he will encourage Congress to guide the U.S. in fidelity to its founding principles including religious liberty. He referred briefly to the issue of immigration, and called on the U.S. to build a “truly tolerant and inclusive” society. Francis described himself as the son of an immigrant Italian family …